An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5990-00-761-3754
NSN 5999-01-567-5645
NSN 6110-01-388-2389
NSN 5996-01-496-8563
NSN 6105-01-227-3805
NSN 5975-00-967-9877
NSN 6645-00-279-1777
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NSN 5945-01-546-0988
NSN 5855-01-495-1339
NSN 4140-01-607-1537
NSN 5998-01-229-5351